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The Lowdown
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Jan. 21, 2009 Post
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Here's the The
Lowdown from DNJournal.com! Updated
daily to fill you in on the latest buzz going
around the domain name industry!
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In
our current cover story - The
State of the Industry January 2009: 15 Leading Experts
Break Down What Went Wrong in 2008 and Predict What Will
Happen in 2009 - one recurring theme among
our panel of experts is that 2009 would be another big
year for
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consolidation within
the industry. Well, right on cue a major acquisition
has just been completed. The news is embargoed
until tomorrow morning (Jan. 22) but we will release it
as soon as the embargo expires. For those not familiar
with embargo protocol, it allows news sources to send
information to reporters so they can prepare their
articles and have them ready for release as soon as
the embargo expires. When a journalist receives
embargoed information they are obliged to honor the
source's wishes - the material is to be considered
the same as something told to you off the record
until the time the embargo expires. |
Domain
industry consolidation continues |
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While the
explosion of blogs on the web has been a great thing,
many bloggers are not aware of some professional
protocols (or simply choose to ignore them) and at times
in the past have violated
a source's trust by releasing embargoed information
before it expires. This is a sure way to permanently
lose your sources and the trust of future sources who
see that you do not honor off the record or embargoed
information.
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Everyone is gearing
up for the DOMAINfest
Global conference that gets underway
in Hollywood, California Tuesday (Jan.
27) with a boot camp for industry new
comers. The main even continues Wednesday
through Friday (Jan. 28-30). Today show
organizers released their final
agenda for the big event that will
include a keynote address by Apple
Co-Founder Steve Wozniak on Wednesday
plus big parties at Universal Studios
Wednesday night and the |
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Playboy Mansion
Thursday night (Jan. 29). I will be speaking at
the final boot camp session Tuesday afternoon
and of course will be covering the event
throughout the week with daily posts here in the
Lowdown and a major conference review article a
few days after we return from the show. |
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New York City
based singer-songwriter Lizzy Grant got a
big break when she was featured in an exclusive Huffington
Post interview today. How, you
ask, is that domain news? Well, it so happens
that Lizzy's dad is long time domain investor Rob
Grant, who was the subject of our April
2008 Cover Story (and is also one of
the 15 experts featured in our current State
of the Industry Cover Story).
A lot of domainers
also got to know Lizzy personally when she
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Lizzy
Grant |
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2008
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in Orlando
last May. She has a new three-song EP out called
Kill Kill and a ton of
talent so we are all rooting for her to make
it big in the music business. You can find out
more at, where else, LizzyGrant.com.
One
other note just in - Kentucky's attempt to confiscate
gambling related domains may not be over yet.
Yesterday a state appeals court overturned a
lower court's attempt to confiscate 141 domain
names but we just heard a well-sourced rumor that the
Commonwealth is going to appeal the reversal to
the Kentucky Supreme Court. |
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(Posted
Jan.
21, 2009) |
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